I went to a video store a few days ago and accidentally saw a VCD of this movie, so I bought it back.
I have seen it once before. The Chinese translation is "The Heart of the Beloved Woman". Because it is an old film imported from the original version, it is dubbed in Chinese, and it is the same version as what I have seen before. Seriously, a good dubbed movie looks more comfortable than the original, because pirated subtitles are becoming more and more intolerable these days.
When I watched it again, I still couldn't help being deeply moved, although maybe in the eyes of many people, this film is not even a les movie in the true sense.
The protagonists are three women. The story takes place in the United States in the 1980s. Whoopi Goldberg's anonymous bar singer, Jane, sees an ad in the newspaper asking for a long-distance companion. Jane is a lesbian. Unlike the lesbian heroines we are used to seeing, she is obviously not beautiful, even ugly.
The advertisement is for Robin, played by Mary Louise Parker, an intellectual, sensitive and slender woman. After they met in the cafe, Robin told Jane that she was a real estate developer, and she decided to change the environment because she was tired of the city. She invited Jane to go with her. When Robin said that the only requirement was not to smoke in the car, Jane flatly refused, "Forget it, you should find someone else, we will definitely not get along. Just as they were leaving the cafe, Jane's car was towed away by the police (parking illegally? I don't understand). Robin laughs, you'll need at least $200 to redeem it, so consider my suggestion - this opening kind of reminds me of "Sweeter than chocalate." :) In
the end, the two women were still on the road together. The morning we left was winter, and Jane was standing alone in the already empty room playing Carpenter's "Near You" (probably the name, I can't remember exactly). She and Robin are completely different people, skin color, education, and attitude to life. Robin's favorite is Carpenter. When Jane opened the door, Robin was already standing outside the door. The morning snow reflected her blonde hair and slightly pale face. Robin smiled and said, good morning.
Robyn's health had not been very good on the way, and she explained that she had allergies.
Visiting her old friend Holly in Bittsburgh Jane, played by Drew Barrymore, the sweet little woman abused by her drug-and-drinking husband. During the argument, Holly injured her husband, and the three women fled in a panic, tape the man to a chair, and drove away.
Robin and Holly burst into laughter in shock. Jane said helplessly, make trouble, don't drag me into it.
Holly discharges all the way to the gas station staff and any other males in sight, but still worried about her asshole husband at home, decides to take the bus back. She didn't know that the unfortunate guy had died by accidentally hitting his head while struggling.
Jane and Robin, who saw the newspaper news, drove madly to catch up with Holly, and Holly, the little woman who was sitting in the bus grimacing at them, finally saw the newspaper headline that Robin had posted on the window glass. Holly refused to turn herself in, saying the man was only slightly injured when they left, and that she was pregnant - though it wasn't known whose.
So the three women took turns driving non-stop, from the cold north to the exotic west.
Robin learns from Holly that Jane is lesbian, and she shows polite shock. The journey continues, and the scenery along the way gradually becomes desolate and beautiful. Jane remembered that this was the road she had traveled with her mother and her younger brother when she was a child, who died of cancer at the age of 7.
Robin fainted again and was taken to the hospital, where Jane learned that Robin had AIDS.
Robin was haggard and beautiful lying on the hospital bed. I thought it wouldn't happen in another place, she said, I shouldn't lie to you.
It's not cheating, I just don't want to say, Jane said, we're even, and I didn't tell you I'm lesbian. But don't worry, I have no intentions of you.
How could...? Why didn't you try to me? Robin asked.
You are not my type. Jane smiles, you are safe with me.
Robin's beautiful eyes flickered in a trance, didn't they?
When Jane turned to get ice cubes for Robin, Robin burst into tears. I don't know where to go, she cried. Jane hugged her gently and said, if we don't know where we're going, we'll just stay where we are. Jane's voice was calm and soothing.
So they stayed in the western town, and the three lived together in a golden flat-roofed house.
Jane sings in a bar. The boss is a middle-aged woman with a pair of young children, also lesbian. On Jane's birthday, a lively birthday party was held in the bar.
Robin sits next to Jane in a printed dress and shakes her body to the jazz music. She borrows a fire from the bartender to light a cigarette and hands it to Jane after lighting it. When the Adagio sounded, several pairs of women began to dance slowly, and the bartender asked Robin to dance. Robin once told Jane that she used to go to bars because of loneliness, but no man fell in love with her except the bartender. This bartender seems to be yet another man who has fallen in love with Robin, and he takes Robin home after the party. Jane and the bar owner went to a fortune teller's house, and the old fortune teller told Jane that her friend had a catastrophe, and Jane knew it was Robin.
When Jane got home, Robin was sitting on the porch drinking, and she sat and chatted with Robin. Holly, whose belly is already obvious, is having sex with her new boyfriend, who is actually a policeman named Abraham Lincoln.
Robin and Jane said good night and said, your letters are all in the living room. Jane walked to the living room and saw a piano with a red ribbon. Jane sat down, played and sang Robin's favorite Carpenter song slowly, until I love you, and stopped abruptly. Robin stood on the porch and listened.
On the night of the carnival, the people of the town gathered in the square to watch the show, Robin received flowers from the bartender, and they walked into the happy crowd, dancing and kissing.
Jane sat outside the crowd watching them, and the bar owner came and said that it seemed Robin was having a good time. Jane smiled. That's exactly what you want, the boss said.
However the next morning Jane found Robin in a frenzy, the bartender knew of her condition and she thought Jane had told him. She and Jane quarrel and break. Jane moved out of the golden building and moved into a bar.
Abraham proposes to Holly, who can't help but talk about the accident that happened in the past. Now, do you still want to marry me? she asked timidly. After a moment of silence, Abraham said, "We are already together, let's sleep."
Robin calls his mother on a lonely night. The shrewd mother came to her home and showed her disapproval of the various people around Robin. She said, I don't know why you didn't come home.
The next day, Holly was taken away by the police. "I'm 100 percent on Holly's side, but I must defend the dignity of the law," Abraham said.
Jane who came here was still tit for tat with Robin, Jane said, I will help Holly by myself, without your help.
In court, Jane appeared as a witness. It's winter again. Jane is no longer the casual dress of the past, wearing a skirt and sitting on the witness stand.
The prosecution lawyer is a middle-aged man. He started with Jane's lesbian identity as a cross-examination point -
is there a relationship beyond friendship between you and the defendant?
Jane is silent.
Please answer.
no.
Are you gay, or are you more gay?
Why do you ask about this?
are you gay?
do i look alike?
Are you gay?
Yes. I'm. I'm afraid women often say that to you. But, I am real. Jane answered without hesitation.
Robin watched her favorite old movies for the nth time at night and talked with her mother, but she did not tell her about her illness.
Mother said that the person who is willing to accompany you to grow old may be far from the person you expected at the beginning. This is your own life, remember.
Jane's testimony didn't work very well. Before the second hearing, she saw Robin sitting on the steps of the courtroom.
I'm still mad at you. Robin said, but Holly's business is our business, please let me participate.
Jane laughed and went up the steps to help Robin pick up her bag.
Robin displayed her composure and intelligence in court.
Holly didn't even call home after leaving her husband. the lawyer said. This is not what intentional murder is.
I said just now that their relationship is over. Robin said, you think a girl like her must need a man, but it's not. She has us.
Can you be fathers for others?
I have no idea. However, women do have a special power, and so do you men. Robin said, looking at Jane in the audience. I don't think that one gender is better than the other... I mean, there is indeed a special emotion between the same sex, the love between men and women is hard to come by, and it may not last long. Robin looked at Jane and said, Jane smiled.
Holly was convicted of being forced to kill and would have a year in prison, she said with a wry smile, "I'm going to be a mother in prison."
Abel said, I will wait for you to come out with the child.
The two started kissing across the barbed wire, and then Holly turned around and said, can we be alone for a while.
Jane said to Robin, you see, the relationship between women is not so strong. Jane finally apologized to Robin as they walked out of the courtroom.
Robin said, I was not right either. All because of being too lonely. The distance between me and others is always growing, and I am always... alone, screaming desperately, while others... just beckon. The people I love have left me, left me.
Jane stood opposite her and said lightly, I will not leave you.
Let's stop hiding something from each other, even if it's well-meaning, Robin said.
Will not. Jane said.
simple.
What?
Robin fainted suddenly.
The bartender came to the hospital, and Jane sat in the empty corridor.
Jane went to the fortune teller's hut again, and she asked the old fortune teller to remove the disaster for Robin.
I don't expect miracles, I just want to make her suffer less. I brought the money and can pay you now.
At night, Robin's mother sat beside the bed to accompany her, and Jane slept on the window sill in the room.
When Robin woke up, he saw Jane. Mother went home. Robin Yangjian called her mother. Across the blinds, Robin saw his dead brother.
She took off her oxygen mask and said to Jane, I loved a woman when she was ten years old.
Oh, I liked boys back then. Jane said.
Her hair was red, Robin said intermittently, and she was gorgeous, with red hair.
I used to have red hair too.
do you love me? Robin asked Jane.
Jane was silent for a moment. Yes. have been in love.
I love you too. Robin said softly.
I don't like funerals. Robin went on, but Mom would definitely want it, so it's going to be here.
good.
Have a party after the funeral and invite a lot of people.
good.
Jane finally burst into tears.
Holly gave birth at the prison hospital. By the time Abraham and Jane arrived, she had already given birth to a baby boy. They go to the nursery to see the newborn.
Through the glass, the new father's eyes swept across the row of ranking children, and finally saw Holly's baby.
It was a dark-skinned boy.
Abraham turned to look at Jane. Jane reprimanded, look at me.
Holly was released from prison in the spring, and Robin planted a yellow cactus in front of the house where they once lived together. Jane pushed Robin in a wheelchair out of the door. Robin was haggard and her hair was thinning due to chemotherapy. She reached for the baby, who let out a loud cry.
There was a party in the evening to welcome Holly back. Robin, in a wheelchair in a corner of the room, begins singing Carpenter's "Near You." She stopped in the middle of singing to look at Jane. Jane went on to sing. Everyone listened quietly, and there was only Jane's hoarse and low voice in the dim room. She stood by the door, staring at Robin in a wheelchair, Robin's eyes deepened with thinness, and she smiled at Jane.
One sunny afternoon, Robin's wheelchair was still in the corner of the room where she had sat. Jane turned to leave. The room was empty.
Holly escorted her into the car at the door and said, you must come back for Christmas.
Jane drove away. A shot of Robin flashed before his eyes. She had a pale but bright smile.
End.
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